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...week, the Democrats rehearsed a new line: President Bush is approaching Social Security reform the same way he entered Iraq-precipitously, declaring a crisis where none exists, creating a solution that promises to be disastrous. They were also, privately, mystified. Why was George W. Bush choosing to waste his honeymoon political capital on this particular can of worms? The polls indicate no great public clamor to change the system (and the Democrats were right about the absence of a crisis-there is a Social Security problem; there is a Medicare crisis). Indeed, there were rumblings of discontent among congressional Republicans...
...week, the Democrats rehearsed a new line: President Bush is approaching Social Security reform the same way he entered Iraq--precipitously, declaring a crisis where none exists, creating a solution that promises to be disastrous. They were also, privately, mystified. Why was George W. Bush choosing to waste his honeymoon political capital on this particular can of worms? The polls indicate no great public clamor to change the system (and the Democrats were right about the absence of a crisis--there is a Social Security problem; there is a Medicare crisis). Indeed, there were rumblings of discontent among congressional Republicans...
...George W. Bush's ambitious second-term agenda, which includes reforming the federal tax code, partially privatizing Social Security and probably naming at least one Supreme Court Justice. To make any of that happen, Bush will have to work with the opposition. But he is getting less of a honeymoon from Democrats after winning an election with a clear majority than he did after winning one decided by the Supreme Court. Leaders of both parties mouth the usual platitudes about wanting to work with the other side, but they are not backing it up with action. Even before the 109th...
Arnold requested—and the Democrat-dominated Legislature passed—a bill that pushed Propositions 57 and 58 onto California’s ballots last March. And almost as soon as it became known that Governor Honeymoon supported them, both measures passed comfortably...
...Wedding Scrapbook (HarperCollins; 64 pages), due next month. Couples can commemorate everything from the first date to the first anniversary on the album's spiralbound pages. Miller offers guidance and ideas along the way--ask your friends to put toasts in writing, mail yourselves a postcard from the honeymoon--but lets newlyweds do the rest...